The Skyrim example gives hope that modding is neither about to die out nor that is it incompatible with the interests of the developers and publishers. I sincerely hope that devs and publishers will see the potential in modding community to earn even more money that way, if not for any altruistic reasons, and decide to go down that road. IMHO, it is very much like the F2P debate in MMO's and the question if that business model would pay off at all.